Maggie Renzi has been John Sayles’ creative partner since 1978 and she has produced nearly all of his movies. She has also acted in many of them. Renzi and Sayles were students together at Williams College in the early 1970s, and have been together since 1973.
Honeydripper is John Sayles’ 16th feature film. His career began as a novelist and short story writer with the publication in 1975 of Pride of the Bimbos, followed in 1977 by Union Dues, a National Critics’ Circle and National Book Award nominee. A short story collection, The Anarchists’ Convention appeared in 1979, when he began working as a screenwriter for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures. Early screenwriting credits include Piranha, Battle Beyond the Stars, The Howling and Alligator.
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